In deep and going deeper

So the clear resin is giving me too many ideas.  I said the thing about the elements... You know, pure elements being MSD and mixed being Yo... welp.  I have a claim on Mist with my sister, and I think I want an elf eared Ni head... so long as Ni isn't Bei with human ears... which I'm pretty sure it's not...


Hold on... I'm checking the website... Ok, so I'm sure that Ni is not a bei with human ears.  Her little face is less smiley and her eyes are straighter on top... Preeeedy damn sure.  But since RS has been offering to put different ears on dolls I was like... Ok, elf ears on my Mist doll?  and then a water doll.. well If I'ma have a water doll I may as well put mermaid ears on a li then...

Yep.  I did that.  I figured out heads for 2 elemental dolls.  Oh and don't forget, I still am an idiot... so I am right now, at this very moment, contemplating how one would do opposing element dollies... Yep... Just came up with steam... which would be fire water... and then Dust would be air earth wouldn't it? Steam would have to be either clear blue and red or vice versa... do clear red and light blue or pink and clear dark blue?  IDK.  But clear brown is a must for dust.  and then light grey for the not clear?  Eeeeeh I'm bad. I'm bad, Y'know it!  If they come out with a new head... I'm sunk, Especially if it's a 1/6th head and I like it.

Also interesting things.... Mom is thinking about getting an MSD boy but she wants him to be slightly shorter than Tulip... T_T this is gonna be a pain.  She's gonna end up going to another website and likely going to end up not happy with it.  She's had the problem before... It'll happen again just the same.  *siiigh* oh well.  Whatever.  Time to go back to doing actual stuffs

Just more update stuff

SO!  Some updates from last post...

1.  yes, Resinsoul will tint the clear resin.  Elementals will happen at some point in time... Not sure when, not sure what, or even what size, kinda flopping around with the idea of Psuedo elementals, Like smoke (air fire) Mud (water earth) Embers (fire earth) Mist (air water) that sort of thing.  Only problem is they are mostly... Well muddled colors... Like embers would be fun with like... brown and clear red  And mist could be awesome with like light blue and clear purple  but Mud would be like... at best brown and blue... and smoke is like... grey and clear?  grey and darker grey?  Kiiiinda boring.  Not terrible but not great.  loads to think about... Maybe even... >.> Pure elements as MSD and psuedo elements as 1/6?  That could be badass...  Foo...

2. Coats are coming along amazing.  We have some totally awesome colors worked up and I'm spazzy stoked.  We've got a couple that are xmas/winter a really awesome red sky at dawn and a forest floor color... buuuut the one I'm most into atm... Argyle sweater... I know... it sounds stupid and it may well sell like shit... BUT!  I love it.  Mom always shys away from the argyle pattern but I've always liked it... It's just so weird.  So I have an awesome combo picked out with that and I'm just like... WOOOOOO!

3. Koda!  So I painted him finally, he's amazing.  He's so damn cute!  and He looks nothing like I planned.  So first off... those "marbles" he had for eyes... They were shitty plastic beads.  >.> So unamused.  but I got him new beads (purple) restrung him and blushed his whole little self.  He gave me fits while I was blushing him but now I'm so stupidly happy... I can't even put him away.  he needs me to make him a case so he can be carried safely.  That needs to go on the docket like now... Like last week now.

Otherwise it's been pretty slow.  Got a bug spray happening today so I need to go put on pants and pick up the last of the dishes >.<  The joys of apartment living.

Late night and clear resin

Ok, so it's like 4 am... I woke up with a nightmare that I was dead and in purgatory, And I really don't wanna think about it, best way to do that... Dolls.  So Lets start with what's been going on.

So back at the mega meetup we met up with numerous people, and ended up getting commissions from a couple people.  So that was really cool, cus mom will actually do stuff that she needs to do.  She and Ron are currently stuck home but rather than working on doll stuff right now we're gearing up for Halloween, which is cool.  We got both commissions done and got a hell of a lot of new Ideas.  We had just two types of coats.  A long coat (with skirt) and a short coat (no skirt).  Now we have at least 4 things we are going to do, cus we now have a caplet (hood with smaller skirt attached to it) and a just hood.  I need to get off my butt and make more jewelry but there's always something more pressing that I'm much more interested in.  Though we did get the etsy shop up and going, not that anything has happened on it but yea.

Next item, yesterday the sister showed me something that is wallet damning... Resin Soul is offering clear resin now... That they will mix with regular resin half way.... Oh my lord my head has been spinning with what I should add to my list.  Now... Lets be clear, I don't mind adding to my list... but right now it's kinda long but getting shortish.  At present I am actually planning on making Val over this year, which he ended up being a whole new doll for me, and Biggun plans on buying his old body and turning that into his brother, which I'm totally cool with.  But so after him I've got just 3 more dolls on my list... and one impulse baby to deal with.  Pretty much that means I've got 4 years until I'm out of dolls... will I probably come up with more dolls to make?  Probably.  If not do I have a backup plan?  You bet I do.  Does that still make me feel like I could be allowed to put more dolls on my list?  You know it.

Back to this clear resin... So Here I am, thinking... Man, all the possibilities..  Ghost dolls?  Carve on that dollie and make something incredible?  maybe... If it can be tinted, Elemental dolls!  How cool would that be?  Make a fire elemental doll?  Or a water?  Air?  So many possibilities!  None of them are really grabbing me atm, I'm still stuck on wanting the female dragon to come out so maybe that's what's going on with me.

And I mentioned my little impulse buy, The he/she/it dragon from mushroom peddler?  Ok so it's a wyvern but it looks very bat like... Soooo... His name is Koda, I'm going to do his colors pretty much all in pear and I plan on his "soft" parts being colored in a champaine/pink gold color and his "hard" parts done in a blue/purple color, I like the marbles they used for his eyes, I think that works well, I just need to find better colored marbles for him cus I don't really like the black red ones he's got. Unsure if I'm going to make the eyes his soft color, his hard color or a mix between the two.  IDK.  but he's chillin on the shelf nearby.

Ok, I think I've got enough to think about to put me back to sleep, so here's hoping that I can stay on the nice, dolly shit that I've got in my brain so I can sleep more... If not... Crochet on the couch.

Mega meet and the ride home

So the Chicago mega meet was pretty damn awesome.  I sold two necklaces, we sold a bunch of coats and had a blast.

Some highlights:
Despite having a near panic attack the day before, I got Jesene a new necklace to go with the outfit Keeley made for her...

My new dragon arrived the day before the meet so I got to take he/she/it with (leaning towards he)

Sister bought a kitten tiny... it's super adorable.

just generally had a blast.

Some other funny things happened that weren't exactly what one would call a highlight.  On the way home we were talking about our awesome monetary gains and missed the exit from 355 to 88... BUT!  we were totally able to turn it around... got back onto the toll way in less than 5 min... it rained and we got a chance to laugh at mom wearing a garbage bag poncho... I dropped my frappe while we were still in the Oasis just outside of chicago and not only did we get a good giggle but they gave me a replacement for free!  Good guy greg McDonalds...

Now on the ride home.... We had some amazing revelations... I have a bunch of parts... They are damaged and not all the same color.  It sounds like I might be making a 1/6th centaur homunculus... Sister is kinda frustrated with my immediate claiming of the butts but right now I'm missing a top torso, back legs and a head even with her parts... so I'm not worried about it but she is... but so far we have 2 full bei legs with feet (damaged in light blue) 2 full 1/6 DJ arms (also damaged but in green) and then she will have up to 2 butts (undamaged, one male one gender free both sky blue but one darker than the other) left from Orn getting a new ass.  So that leaves me with the idea of getting the Pixiu ears on a March or Ni (can't remember right now) or seeing if they'll make me "mermaid" ears on a 1/6th OR! getting a pixiu head as a last resort.  I'd also need, all the parts already present in the pot, an upper torso and back legs, which I'm thinking of going for like... a pixiu torso or maybe even the little girl chest.. not sure why.. but yea and maybe a pair of pixiu legs for the back legs.  This is a mod doll and a half so I'm thinking things like...  carving the feet so they won't look so human foot like... and or using bigger feet on the back like Saties hooves... but those are huuuuge.  BUT YEA!  Sounds like my "spider doll" might turn into this doll... But I'm super tired right now... so the couch is calling my name... Laters.

The boaaaax! what's in the Boaax???!?!

So not too long ago I had my first moment of "do want naow.  Must have naow... GIMMIE!"

I bought a second hand Wyvern from The Mushroom Peddler...

This makes he/she/it the second doll for the year... Bad naughty me... But he's just sooo damn cute... I'm pretty sure it's a he... I have no name... no ideas... no nothing... all I know is CUTE!  He was expensive... 125 shipped... But I'm so damn excited about him... it's just not even funny.  I'm pretty sure he's white skin, so IDK what I'ma do with him colors wise.

In other news the replacement arms and legs for fig and lotus, happy about that.  got her restrung all nice and tight. Fig's going to get a small mod before he gets restrung, Want to put a latch spot in his arm ball... Havn't done it yet so yea >.> Thinking about actually doing a double... Like... one for all the way out and one for half way... IDK if I can...But I might try on his "not good" arms... >.> yea...

And last but not least, Keeley and I are working together on Jesene's outfit... I'm stoked.  It's kinda floating back and forth but I'm pretty excited about it... Miiight be using tea dyed lace on it... How cool is that?

Pre-Mega meet and Yellow fairy

So I'm still pretty calm about the mega meet... it's a good few weeks away, but we haven't made anything since Puddle so I'm starting to get nervous.  Plus it's in Chicago this time which is disappointing.  Originally, mom's dog was supposed to have her puppies like... between now and when the meet is, so mom wasn't going to be able to come... Yea Dog isn't prego.  Little punk's been pretending to be prego to get the extra fuds.  Ok so maybe she doesn't understand it but yea, it's what it feels like.  So bad news, No puppies.  Good news mom gets to come with to the meet.

Not much else going on.  Still need to finish Fig's wig (heh) and I have a yellow skinned fairy burning a hole in my brain.  Like... Yellow skin, and burgundy hair... She's lovely in my head.  Starting to try and decide what she'd have for a wig, and that's a dangerous road.   Does she have a fluffy wig?  A home spun wig like it's dreads?  Is it home town dreads?  Maybe it's all little knots of regular yarn... IDK!!  I'm trying not to look at flowers... Cus I -saw- a flower... Have I talked about this yet? I don't care.  I found this Dahlia... I think that's how it's spelled... But I found it at Pecks and was like O.O OMG I LOVE IT!  it's got almost redish leaves... a dark center and a lovely yellow petals that curl slightly... It's lovely.  Well turns out it's a "new" flower... So "Dahlia"  is the "scientific" name for it and about a dozen other Dahlias...  Sooo that won't work... And I'm so sad about it... cus it's so pretty... And wouldn't you know it?  My dumb ass is out there, googling yellow flowers... See... It can't just be -Any- flower.  It has to be the -right- flower.  It has to be yellow, with dark, preferably redish leaves... it has to be native to Australia or africa... and it has to be lovely.  So far, I have Dietes bicolor which is the african Iris... So name wise she'd be "Iris"  which is ok but not great... but the flower is -really- pretty.  OOooor Eucalyptus preissian which is the Bell-fruited Mallee.... And name wise that's absolutely intensely awesome... But the flower lacks a little... It's kinda like a yellow koosh ball... I mean the leaves are dark green and red, the yellow is the perfect color... The flower is kinda... Masculine?  If this was supposed to be a boy it would be totally fine... but it's clearly a girl name, and in my mind it's a girl...

But this is dragging on... I've documented my ideas and well... they aren't perfect.... so the search will have to continue at a later date/

Post Puddle 2015

Apparently Puddle is always something of a mess... We didn't get any notifications about when everything started and ended this year... which was a pain but we got everything figured out.  Mom was a mess cus some creepy car noise started when we got to Chicago, luckily it wasn't a big deal, she took it to an auto center while the sis and I watched the booth.  They had a really cool "mingling" activity this year, we designed a doll with a group of people while in line for our door prize, which was fun, the doll we designed was pretty cool.  I would have liked to see what everyone had done though... so yea.  We won the item from the raffle I wanted so I'm pretty stoked.

I always have a hard time with the attitudes, the desire to continually have the newest and the greatest doll pisses me off.  It really flies in the face of my desire to be creative and do stuff with my dolls.  There is such a big deal about keeping this doll exactly like it was... and I'm just not into that.  It's one of the reasons the Mega meet is way more my speed.  And since it went later this time, I was really tired of it by the time it was done.  I really feel that having it be shorter would be way better.... but they just -milk- it.  But whatever.  Friday was a blast... We all had a blast, I got to do some swimming and there was an Indian wedding party staying at the hotel so there was so much pretty stuff to look at.  I sold a necklace and we sold 6 coats, plus the outfit with Keely, so that was awesome.  All in all.  Good times.  Not super sure what we'll do about next year, sounds like we wanna drive up that day, do puddle, then chill the next day rather than the day we drive in... we'll see when we get closer to the day.

The mega meetup is in Chicago this year and I'm both irritated and happy about that.  Bad news:  It's in Chicago.  This means that the trip is going to be long, we're going to have to deal with the damn construction again, and we have to deal with the Friggin toll ways.  I hate toll ways.  Good News:  We can go to Mitsuwa again.  IDK, I really like going there, I didn't enjoy myself as much this time cus I was really wound up. So, at least I get another chance at their fud.  Cus god damn their food is good.  But that's not for another month and some time.  So we'll have to see how that goes.